Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

What you can become you are already.

If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Religion is the highest vanity.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.